IOError: Could not find valid configuration file ... file is in one of the paths tried

[dhodson]

So I am to the point of checking if everything is working by running the short QB query and can't seem to get this to work. I have tried nuking the whole thing and starting over multiple times to no avail. Output is below.

I am using anaconda with 2.7, trying to run this in Spyder IDE. Very new to programming in general so apologies if I have left out information needed. I also don't seem to have the config.ini.sample file, just a config.ini which i did update with the proper password and it is in the path "C:\Anaconda\share\nfldb\config.ini"

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In [1]: runfile('C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2/temp.py', wdir='C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2')
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in
runfile('C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2/temp.py', wdir='C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2')

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\sitecustomize.py", line 685, in runfile
execfile(filename, namespace)

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\sitecustomize.py", line 71, in execfile
exec(compile(scripttext, filename, 'exec'), glob, loc)

File "C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2/temp.py", line 9, in
db = nfldb.connect()

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\nfldb\db.py", line 119, in connect
"Tried the following paths: %s" % tried)

IOError: Could not find valid configuration file. Tried the following paths: ['', 'C:\Anaconda\share\nfldb\config.ini', 'nfldb\config.ini']

In [2]: runfile('C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2/temp.py', wdir='C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2')
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in
runfile('C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2/temp.py', wdir='C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2')

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\sitecustomize.py", line 685, in runfile
execfile(filename, namespace)

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\sitecustomize.py", line 71, in execfile
exec(compile(scripttext, filename, 'exec'), glob, loc)

File "C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2/temp.py", line 9, in
db = nfldb.connect()

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\nfldb\db.py", line 119, in connect
"Tried the following paths: %s" % tried)

IOError: Could not find valid configuration file. Tried the following paths: ['', 'C:\Anaconda\share\nfldb\config.ini', 'nfldb\config.ini']

In [3]: %clear

In [4]: runfile('C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2/temp.py', wdir='C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2')
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in
runfile('C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2/temp.py', wdir='C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2')

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\sitecustomize.py", line 685, in runfile
execfile(filename, namespace)

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\sitecustomize.py", line 71, in execfile
exec(compile(scripttext, filename, 'exec'), glob, loc)

File "C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2/temp.py", line 9, in
db = nfldb.connect()

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\nfldb\db.py", line 119, in connect
"Tried the following paths: %s" % tried)

IOError: Could not find valid configuration file. Tried the following paths: ['', 'C:\Anaconda\share\nfldb\config.ini', 'nfldb\config.ini']

[dhodson]

Think I got more attempts in that paste of output than I wanted, here is a more concise output with just one attempt:

runfile('C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2/temp.py', wdir='C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2')
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in
runfile('C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2/temp.py', wdir='C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2')

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\sitecustomize.py", line 685, in runfile
execfile(filename, namespace)

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\sitecustomize.py", line 71, in execfile
exec(compile(scripttext, filename, 'exec'), glob, loc)

File "C:/Users/dohod_000/.spyder2/temp.py", line 9, in
db = nfldb.connect()

File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\nfldb\db.py", line 119, in connect
"Tried the following paths: %s" % tried)

IOError: Could not find valid configuration file. Tried the following paths: ['', 'C:\Anaconda\share\nfldb\config.ini', 'nfldb\config.ini']

[BurntSushi]

The error message means exactly what it says: it tried to open a config file at those paths and it couldn't. There's really nothing much else to say. The code that tries the paths is here: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/blob/master/nfldb/db.py#L47 And if nothing is found, it reports the error you're seeing, which is here: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/blob/master/nfldb/db.py#L116

I'd recommend double checking that you do in fact have a valid config file at one of the paths listed.

There is a config.ini.sample file here: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/blob/master/config.ini.sample

[dhodson]

Figured it out, sorry for wasting any of your time and thanks for all the work with this!

For any newbs like myself that might be having trouble with this. I don't know if its a windows thing or just my lack of experience, but here was the issue:

When I made a copy of the config.ini file it was still under a .SAMPLE extension. I don't have much experience, so I didn't know that was a thing and really how to even fix it. I tried saving several different ways and specifying my own extension from notepad and it did not work, so I just started from scratch and copied and pasted the content of the sample file into a new document (not a copied one) then saved it properly as 'config.ini'.